The Forgotten Scientist Behind The Discovery of DNA

Hi, it’s Tim in Munich. I thought I knew a lot about DNA and the double helix but I had no idea that one scientist involved may have been robbed of her rightful place in history. But first...

If you're like many people, the two names that spring to mind are Watson and Crick. That is, American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick, who in the early 1950s helped revolutionize science by describing the double-helix structure of DNA. That earned them, along with another scientist named Maurice Wilkins, a Nobel Prize in 1962.